1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: All right news, rounded up information overload hour. Apparently some 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: things happened on this call with the G seven and 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: Biden yesterday as they were trying to convince him to 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: stay beyond the August thirty first deadline that he's adhering 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,959 Speaker 1: to because he's capitulated completely to the Taliban, which is 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: remarkable in and of its In and of itself, even 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: the medium mob it recognizes how awful this is going 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:35,280 Speaker 1: to be. Even NBC Richard Engel, their reporter, called it 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: a moment of American humiliation. You could also look at 10 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: this as a tremendously humiliating, a moment of American humiliation, 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: leaving forced to leave on the Taliban's clock and with 12 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: the Taliban's good graces. So technically it makes sense, but 13 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how history will. I think history will 14 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: judge this moment as a very dark period for the 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 1: United States. I think he actually is right and on 16 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 1: so many different levels. Now, one of the things to 17 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: come out, we know that Joe Biden was on the phone, 18 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: it was about four or five hours late yesterday for 19 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: his press conference. It was beyond odd and weird. And 20 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: then comes out and starts talking about great economic success 21 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: and five trillion in new spending and everything but Afghanistan. 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: And when he finally got around to Afghanistan, he had 23 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: everything that had been reported earlier in the day turns 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: out to be true. He's sticking to this August thirty 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: first headline because he's allowing himself to be bullied by 26 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: the Taliban, the same guy that could have very easily 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: in May, June, July, as the Taliban was on the march, 28 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: but we didn't want to engage them like Donald Trump 29 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: would have obliterated them because they weren't allowed to take 30 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: over large geographical portions of Afghanistan as part of the 31 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: Trump deal. Trump would have kept for Gram Air Force Base, 32 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: for example. But anyway, as soon as they took five 33 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: percent of the country, Trump would bombed them into oblivion. 34 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: But Joe didn't do that. Nobody seemed to notice the march, 35 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 1: although we have every indication that the intel community knew 36 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: damn well what was happening, which is why the CIA 37 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: pulled out six seven weeks ago. They got out, and 38 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: every indication is is that everything that they knew they 39 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: were passing onto the Biden and White House and they 40 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: were completely ignored. And now we're hearing. We just heard 41 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: from Congressman Mike Waltz of Florida that in fact, everything 42 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: that the real briefings behind the scene totally completely contradict 43 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: the lies being told by Jensaki and Joe Biden. You 44 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: just can't make this up. It's sad for the country anyway. 45 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: Europe's leaders were trying desperately, apparently yesterday, according to reports, 46 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: to get the president, and this is France, Germany, Italy, 47 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: uk US, Canada, Japan, as well as the heads of NATO, 48 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: even the UN and the EU convene to discuss the situation. 49 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: You know. In a joint statement, they said that the 50 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: immediate priorities to ensure the safe evacuation of our citizens 51 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: and those Afghans who have partnered with us and assisted 52 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: our efforts over the past twenty years, and ensured continued 53 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: safe passage out of Afghanistan, where the Taliban has already 54 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: put an end to that. They're not allowing any Afghans 55 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: to make it to Karzai International Airport, the only way 56 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: out of that country anyway. So they've tried to get 57 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: Biden to extend the deadline and pushed the Taliban back 58 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: on their heels Joe refused, and every indication, according to 59 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: everybody we're talking to, is a strong belief that Americans 60 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: will be left behind, which is unfathomable to me. Anyway. 61 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: Joining us now is David wyn. He is a BBC journalist. 62 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: He got a book out actually on the war in 63 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: Afghanistan called The Long War The Inside Story of America 64 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: and Afghanistans A nine to eleven. He's been covered ring 65 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: the events there since nineteen ninety six and he's reporting 66 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: on the Taliban when they took Cobble for the first time. 67 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:11,839 Speaker 1: He can give us an insider's view of this terror organization. 68 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: What happened yesterday. David, thank you for being one of us, 69 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: are you? It's it's really good to be on the show. 70 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: High you know. I do like a lot of the 71 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: reporting that comes out of Great Britain. I wish they'd 72 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: let Piers Morgan talk there. I mean, it's a little 73 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: frustrating some of your laws there. A little tried to 74 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: do a job, and he tried to do a job 75 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: in the US for a while, but yeah, no, I 76 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: kicked his ass and then he acknowledges that part. He 77 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,119 Speaker 1: went up against me. But I'm kidding we've actually become 78 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: very good friends. I like the Daily Mail. I love 79 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: I love a lot of the media coverage there. It's 80 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's fascinating. But your media laws on 81 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: some levels are better than what we have here, on 82 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: other levels are stifling. You know, the idea that Harry's wife, 83 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: Megan Markle can go out there and complain to the 84 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,919 Speaker 1: British government to try in silence Piers Morgan is unfathomable 85 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: to me. Piers Morgan ought to be able to say 86 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: anything he wants and anything he feels, and clearly people 87 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: wanted to hear from them. But let me ask you this, 88 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: what could you tell us about this G seven meeting 89 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: yesterday and how I was told that our European partners 90 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: were aghast that they couldn't convince Biden to extend the 91 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: August thirty first deadline. I think they were really surprised, 92 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: and you know all the briefings that were coming out 93 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: before the meeting that we're getting darker and darker, and 94 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: the sense that what the UK really wanted and our 95 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: allies in Europe was to extend this and not leave, 96 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: frankly until the mission was completed. I mean this goes 97 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: back to the spring and our Chief of Defense Staff 98 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: generals to Nick Carter when the Biden plan was announced, 99 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: and when these deadlines were announced, Carter said publicly, this 100 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: is not the decision I would have preferred, and the 101 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: UK's Defense secretary, who has been pushing very hard to 102 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,559 Speaker 1: extend the deadline ever since. And I think in a sense, 103 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: Carter and our politicians have been speaking for your generals, 104 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: because there's been a lot of unease, I know, in 105 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: the US military community about the decision to pull out 106 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: and the way that they have and you know, I mean, 107 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: I think this goes back to twenty seventeen, actually, and 108 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: one of the things that I go into in quite 109 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: a lot of detail in the book is the early 110 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: years of President Trump's administration and President Obama's administration before him, 111 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: and both of those presidents came in wanting to finish 112 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: the war, and Trump was persuaded by General Gimattis, who 113 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: was then the US Secretary of Defense, to do a really, 114 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 1: really good speech August twenty first speech twenty seventeen, I 115 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: think was one of the best. I just I've played 116 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 1: some of it earlier where he said he wanted to 117 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: go but you know that was the staging for nine 118 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: to eleven. I've played a lot of it earlier in 119 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: the program. I won't play it now. You're actually correct, 120 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: then we're singing off the same song sheet. Because I 121 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: thought at the time, I thought it was a really 122 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: strong speech. The following year, I was working in Afghanistan 123 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: advising the President's office actually on communications, and I saw 124 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: the effect of that speech in terms of pushing the 125 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: Taliban back on their heels because General Nick Nicholson, who 126 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: was then the commander of forces in Afghanistan, was given 127 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: much more opportunity to go after the Taliban than he 128 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: had been before. And that was that was Trump's decision 129 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: to do that and matters his decision. So that's how 130 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: he beat the CALIPHATEE as well. I mean the Kalifade 131 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: grew under Biden Obama, and Donald Trump defeated the CALIPHATEE 132 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: by bombing the bombing the living daylight side of them. 133 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: I think there was Then you then go into the 134 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: decision to do the withdrawal deal effectively, which which Trump did, 135 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: which I didn't agree with him quite the same way. 136 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 1: And I think the generals who were really in favor 137 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: of that speech in twenty seventeen and taking the gloves 138 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: off and putting the Taliban back on their heels. Want 139 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: the political process in time, but they didn't necessarily want. 140 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: You know, such a swift O withdrawal has happened. So 141 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: I think there a question marks over over the Trump deal. 142 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: But you know, we are where we are, and that 143 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: was what was imposed on the Afghan government. Maybe they 144 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: could share some information with you on because I'm happened 145 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: to be privy to a lot of what happened behind 146 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: the scenes. I've now confirmed it with President Trump himself, 147 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Mark Meadows and 148 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: others that before the first phone conversation with President Trump 149 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: and the leader of the Taliban, went like this, before 150 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: we talk about any deal, let me explain something to you, 151 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: so we're very very clear up front, and basically said 152 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: that if they don't abide by every eye dotted, every 153 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: t crossed, every comma, and every period, that he reminded 154 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: them what he did to the Caliphate, and then he 155 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: said to the effect that will be nothing compared to 156 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: what I will do to you if you don't abide 157 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: by any agreement we may make. Do you understand me, 158 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: you fully understand. Literally, I want the transcript of that 159 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: conversation released. I would like it to be made public 160 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 1: after hearing it from people that were on that hall, 161 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: and from that point the deal was okay. America's withdrawal 162 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: plan before the fighting season, as you know, there are 163 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: seasons in Afghanistan or what was to begin, that they 164 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: would have an orderly withdrawal. And you know, I've been 165 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: doing this time lapsed map of Afghanistan and how much 166 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: territory the Taliban had taken as of early May, mid May, 167 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: late May, early June, mid June, late June into July, 168 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: and to where we are now. But the Trump plan 169 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: would have obliterated them. It would have kept for Graham 170 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: Air Force Base because effectually, by May, you're saying they've 171 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: broken the deal. They broken the state Trump would Trump listened. 172 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: I think they believe Trump. I think when Trump says 173 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: I will obliterate you, I think they believed them. And 174 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: in your sense then that Biden was wanting to pull 175 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: out more quickly. May I think Biden didn't do any 176 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: of the protections with my time elapsed map that I'm showing. 177 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: You know, at the Taliban clearly the Afghan forces were 178 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: collapsing as he's telling us that some of the best 179 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: trained in the world, and meanwhile the Taliban's basically walking 180 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: and taking over the entire country. And when we had 181 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: a chance and we had control of Combo, we didn't 182 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: get our people out. And I'll give a tip of 183 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: the hat to your country because you sent your paratroopers 184 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,839 Speaker 1: and special forces behind the enemy lines to rescue uh 185 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: UK citizens, our friends across the pond. The French did it, 186 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: the Dutch did it, but the United States of America 187 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: did not do it. It's embarrassing. We took out we 188 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: took out an American journalist as well, a very you did. So. Yeah, 189 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 1: so I think that I think from that point of view, 190 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: you know, on the ground, there's certainly been you know, 191 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: challenges and a much more robust and muscular view from 192 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: from the UK and from from French forces. But I 193 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: think it's always going to be it was always going 194 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: to be President Biden's desire to pull out a pulaud 195 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: of Afghanistan. And one, I mean one of the chapters. 196 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: I mean, the two thousand nine year was the other 197 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: key year, I think twenty seventeen and the Trump withdraw 198 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: was key, obviously, but two thousand and nine was the 199 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: year that sort of defined the Obama surge ultimately, and 200 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: they were always going to it was always on a 201 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: timetable And it was the other difference with twenty seventeen. 202 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: It was it was it was conditions based. It wasn't 203 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: on a timetable place that Trump gave the opportunity for 204 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: forces to do something that they hadn't been able to 205 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: do before because what happened in two thousand and nine 206 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: and Biden was the strongest voice in the White House 207 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: as Vice President then to pull troops down to the 208 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: bare minimum or pull them out. And I go into 209 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: a lot of detail in the book. Talked to a 210 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: lot of people in the White House at the time 211 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: about those conversations, and he was always the strongest voice 212 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: because he was the senior player, he'd been a foreign 213 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: foreign policy expert, older than everybody else there. He always 214 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: had the last word, and the last word was let's 215 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: pull troops right down to the minimum. We don't want 216 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,839 Speaker 1: them a crystal search. And I think that had an 217 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: impact on the Obama administration. So Obama was very keen 218 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: to put the troops in, but he wanted them out 219 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: as quickly as they went in. And you had good 220 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,079 Speaker 1: generals like David petrayas Stan McCrystal pushing that timetable as 221 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: much as they could, because the Taliban knew that the 222 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 1: troops were going in on timetable and coming out on timetable. 223 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: And if the surge had been given a real chance, 224 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 1: and then I think the should have been an opportunity 225 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,320 Speaker 1: in twenty one. Thing. We're enough factoring in here though. 226 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: You know, the advancement of modern military weaponry and warfare, 227 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 1: and we learned this as Donald Trump, you know the 228 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 1: way he defeated the Calife. You know, we now have 229 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: modern military technology that allows us to fight and win 230 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: wars with pinpoint precision by pushing buttons and Tampa, Florida. Yeah, 231 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 1: so you so do you agree with General David Petray 232 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: us He says we could be there forever, we could 233 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: keep thirty five hundred troops, which is what we had, 234 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: and that with the contractors, and that's thirty five hundred 235 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: plus seventy thousand or so international coalition. Ultimately it was 236 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: it was about thirty five hundred who were there. I mean, yeah, 237 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: weak equibble that in terms of the numbers of uniforms, 238 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: equibble over some beer and tea. Okay, that's what I understand. 239 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:42,319 Speaker 1: That's what I understand to be the case. But but 240 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: there were around ten thousand international troops, and you had 241 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: the capacity of drone strikes, and you had and you 242 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 1: had Afghan forces backed up by fifteen seventeen thousand contractors 243 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: keeping their air force in the air. And I think 244 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: there was a sense, I mean portray us in particular, 245 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: and he's written about this a lot this year, wanted 246 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: to keep those troops there for effectively for the medium 247 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: term as an insurance policy against the twenty or so 248 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: groups in Afghanistan and the Pakistan region who are seen 249 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: as international terrorist group. Listen, So you have this book 250 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: coming out. It's going to be called The Long War, 251 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan since nine to eleven. 252 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: Your knowledge is is quite impressive, to be very honest, David, 253 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,680 Speaker 1: I'm impressed, and I'm I'm going to wish. I I 254 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: just wish the last chapter had had left a stable 255 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: democratic government in place and not a defeat. But I mean, 256 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: you know that we are where we don't have to 257 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: be this way. It did not have to be like 258 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: this that I can tell you that you know and 259 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: that I know. Anyway, thank you for being with us. 260 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: We'll get to your phone calls coming up next eight 261 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: hundred and nine four one sean. As we continue all 262 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: right twenty five to the top of the hour, eight 263 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: hundred and nine four one Sean. If you want to 264 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: be a part of the program, all right, North Carolina, 265 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: Daniel will start with you. Glad you called. Welcome to 266 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: the show. Thanks for checking in. Hey, thanks, Sean. I 267 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: appreciate it. I've been hearing Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, everybody 268 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: involved in that screw up up there in DC talking 269 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,800 Speaker 1: about and they say it exactly this way. We're going 270 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: to get the Americans out that want to come home, 271 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: and that's that's fishy to me. I think they're just 272 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 1: setting themselves up to uh, you know, cover their ear 273 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: ends when they fail. Even well, yeah, I think you're 274 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: right now. There are going to be some circumstances where 275 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 1: people have families there and children there and they're not 276 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: going to want to come home. I believe that will be, 277 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: but that is not going to be. That will be 278 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: the exception of the rule we know of Americans dying 279 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: to get out that are being turned back at the airport. 280 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: And we've just confirmed today that there are thousands of 281 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: Americans trapped behind enemy lines this day. Thousands. Yeah, it's 282 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: the worst thing I've ever seen militarily in my life. 283 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: So you and I both, my friend, I mean, I 284 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: hate to say it, I mean, but it's like it's 285 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: all we caught. We have to pray for these people. 286 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: Taliban now they've slow walked this entire operation because they 287 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: know they've got leverage. This is why the military options 288 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,479 Speaker 1: allowing it to get to this point. We had control 289 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: of Cobble and all the areas surrounding it for months 290 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: as the Taliban was on the march. Nobody saw this coming. 291 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: They waited for the Taliban to march all the way 292 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 1: up take Cobbles, stay on vacation with no sense of 293 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: urgency of what's going on here. And now we're begging 294 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: the Taliban, a terrorist group, to let Americans get through 295 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: Talhamad Karzai International Airport and sometimes they're saying no. And 296 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: our allies that risked their lives, we promised we get 297 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: them the hell out of there. This day ever came, 298 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: they will be left behind and they will be summarily 299 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: murdered and we will learn about it. The world is watching, 300 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: and Joe Biden caused it all. Sad it was so 301 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: easily preventable. This is beyond and going along and being 302 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:14,600 Speaker 1: bullied into this artificial deadline. I'll give you the last word, sir. Yeah, 303 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,920 Speaker 1: And our leadership is just totally incompetent. I am so 304 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: ashamed of the Biden administration right now that I just 305 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: don't have words for it. I was in the military myself, 306 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: and this is just this is outrageous what's going on. 307 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:31,680 Speaker 1: It's gotten me so upset right now, and not everybody, 308 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: anybody with a heart and soul that loves this country upset. 309 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. The Brits, the French, the Dutch. They send 310 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: in their troops behind enemy lines to rescue their citizens. 311 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: Why didn't we? Mike Waltz confirmed today we have special 312 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,959 Speaker 1: ops on the ground. They're dying to go help Americans. 313 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 1: This is what they trained for. They're not being allowed 314 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: to do it. Sharon is in Indiana. Thank you, Daniel, Sharon. 315 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: How are you? Yes, I'm fine, Sean, how are you? 316 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: I want to thank you for taking my phone call. 317 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: I know you're speaking about Afghanistan at the moment. But 318 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: if I wonder if I could just bring up something 319 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 1: that you said recently about COVID, and I'd like to 320 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 1: thank you for mentioning on your show that there are 321 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,680 Speaker 1: people out there like me who have rare diseases, who 322 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 1: have immune system disorders, who have autoimmune diseases, who can 323 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 1: not take the vaccine, and that is well, like I 324 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: gotta give someone else credit. I mean, it was the story. 325 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: I interviewed a young woman whose dream was to go 326 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 1: to BYU and Hawaii. This was not BYU's decision. I've 327 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: got to be very fair here, but the state of 328 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: Hawaii would not give her a medical exemption and her 329 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: doctor and I advise everyone to talk to their doctor. 330 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about anybody's medical condition. I had 331 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,679 Speaker 1: advised her because she had been paralyzed for over a 332 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,679 Speaker 1: month from a vaccine she received in twenty nineteen. I 333 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: didn't ask what it was. And there are rare conditions, 334 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: which is why one size fits all medicine scares me 335 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: a lot, and why I refuse to tell people what 336 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: to do or not do, except please take it seriously 337 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: and get to a doctor and make the right decision. 338 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 1: For you. What. I appreciate your bringing that awareness out 339 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,639 Speaker 1: there and that I wish more people would put that 340 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: awareness out there rather than just blindly saying get vaccinated, 341 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: get the vaccine to be saved like you did. Please 342 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 1: talk to your doctor and take it seriously. What is 343 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 1: the best thing for you to do based on your 344 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: medical condition. Yes, ma'am, I'm sorry you have that condition. 345 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know what it is, but 346 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,520 Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm sure it sounds like something you're 347 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: struggling with. And let me be very clear too, Sharon, 348 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: I believe in science. I'm not an anti vaxxer. I 349 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: believe in the science of vaccines. I'm just I'm telling 350 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,359 Speaker 1: everybody take it seriously. I know people that have died 351 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: from this. I know people that nearly died from this 352 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,920 Speaker 1: on ventilators for thirty forty days. Take it serious. I've 353 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: seen the worst of this. I've been up to my 354 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: eyeballs in it more ways privately than people have any idea. 355 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 1: And but on the other hand, I can't be your doctor. 356 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor. I'm not qualified. So I'm telling 357 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: people take it seriously. I believe in science. I believe 358 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: in vaccination science, but you have to take into account 359 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 1: what you and your doctor decide here. It's not my 360 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 1: decision for you. I think that there's people like me 361 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: fighting for their life in the hospital every two weeks, 362 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: and if this vaccine is forced on us, we don't 363 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: know what could happen. It could possibly be fatal for us. 364 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 1: And that's the point. We don't know what would happen. 365 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: And just to think that, you know, maybe some of 366 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: our freedoms would be taken away, such as possibly not 367 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,480 Speaker 1: being able to fly or going to an entertainment event 368 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: because we don't have a vaccine card. And I just 369 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: think there needs to be more awareness out there. Well. 370 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,680 Speaker 1: I think the idea that of real life medical exemptions 371 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: needs to be considered. I'm very concerned about issues as well, 372 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 1: medical privacy, doctor patient confidentiality. You know, those are issues 373 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: that others don't seem to care about at all. I 374 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: do care about them, and I also don't know that 375 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: I don't have the answer now the breakthrough cases, the 376 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: CDC is even acknowledged that the vaccine will not prevent 377 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: people in a lot of instances now from getting COVID nineteen. Now, 378 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 1: the early indications are if you've been vaccinated or your 379 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: case is far less severe. That's what so far it has. 380 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: What about behind the delta variant is the lambda variant? Well, 381 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: what's behind the lambda variant? We got another variant that 382 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: is beginning to emerge, and there'll probably be more. So, 383 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: I mean, it gets very, very complicated on so many levels. 384 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: I just urge people, there are people that you know, 385 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,560 Speaker 1: there's a lot of research you can look do you're 386 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: on your own online, talk to the doctor, doctors in 387 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: your life, talk to medical professionals, your trust, and take 388 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 1: this thing seriously because I know people that have died 389 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: friends of mine sad. Thank you for putting that awareness 390 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,159 Speaker 1: out there, and I wish that there was more awareness 391 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: out there to let them know that we're not just 392 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: an anti vaccer. We are people who are struggling with 393 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: medical conditions and we don't have that choice to say 394 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: do I want to get the vaccine or not, or 395 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,479 Speaker 1: do I believe in it or not. We don't have 396 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: a choice. We cannot get it. Well, I trust your 397 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: doctor gave you the right information. If you need a 398 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: second opinion, I urge you do. I'll get a second opinion. 399 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: But I you know, it's um. I've never heard of 400 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: some of these diseases. To be honest with you, there 401 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,120 Speaker 1: are these rare conditions. I don't know anything about them. 402 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,359 Speaker 1: It's out of my wheelhouse. But Sharon, I want you 403 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,239 Speaker 1: to be healthy. I want you to take good care 404 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: of yourself. Do what's best for you. Please listen. I 405 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: urge everyone, please talk to your doctor. Listen to your doctor. 406 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: That's my advice to everybody. Eight hundred nine four one. Sean, 407 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: if you want to be a part of the program. 408 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,720 Speaker 1: Stephen is in Missouri. Stephen, you're on the Sean Hannity Show. 409 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: Glad you called. Hey, Sean, thanks so much. You're firing 410 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: on all eight cylinders today, and you're guests. In regard 411 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: to Afghanistan, we're fantastic. I like that we're recognizing our 412 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: members of Congress that have actually had military experience in Afghanistan. 413 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: I think it's super important for the Secretary, the Press 414 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: Secretary to tell us that you know, or even the 415 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: Department of when they tell us that they don't know 416 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,120 Speaker 1: how many people are afghanistan anadotally. I think that's kind 417 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: of a misstep and a lie because in my travels 418 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 1: in my career with my former wife. We had connections 419 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 1: in France with people that were distant relatives to a 420 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: Middle Eastern country on a diplomatic level, and when we 421 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 1: were leaving France one time, they inquired with us the 422 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: nature of our visit with that family, which I thought 423 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,119 Speaker 1: was very shocking that we even knew, you know, that 424 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: they knew that we were there. So in you know, 425 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,399 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, when we have people, they just have 426 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: to know the numbers that have to be they have 427 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: to be there. The government has to know how many 428 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: people are. I know this for a fact, at least 429 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 1: I've been told by security that when I travel abroad, 430 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: like for example, when I went to Singapore, when we 431 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: went to and Linda, you can confirm this is true. 432 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: Daniel Hoffman scared the living hell out of all of us. 433 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 1: But when we traveled abroad, and we've been in Vietnam 434 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: and Singapore and Helsinki in other places for example, enemy 435 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: countries in in Singapore the case would be China more 436 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 1: than Russia, but in hell Sink it would be Russia 437 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: more than China. That they're very aware that I'm in 438 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: the country, and I've had my hotel rooms literally checked 439 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: for bugs regularly, and I was given burner phones every 440 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: day and told don't even turn your own phone on 441 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: because in a second they have your phone number. They 442 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: will they will hear every word you say. They will 443 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: they will download everything that's on your phone, Linda, anything 444 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,239 Speaker 1: that any part of that untrue? No, definitely not. I mean, 445 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: I know we came back to one night and they 446 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: were still in the room going through the stuff. Yeah, 447 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: and they kind of found something about my recall correctly 448 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: and it wasn't a cockroach, you know it. So the 449 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: ability to know who's there, I believe is fundamental. And 450 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: if we got to this point with this deadline approaching 451 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: and the Taliban on the march since you know may 452 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, really on the march, and they didn't lift 453 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,159 Speaker 1: a finger to stop them or push them back or 454 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: buy more time and allow them to take Cobble as 455 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 1: he's on vacation, Joe, it's unforgivable to me. And they 456 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,479 Speaker 1: know and I you know, it was Tony Blincoln supposed 457 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,280 Speaker 1: to give us this. You know this. There's no deadline 458 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: on evacuating Americans. Now he's saying, why is he saying 459 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: that today? Because it's gone. The reaction has been outrageous. 460 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: It has been collective outrage that they're going to and 461 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: are willing to leave Americans behind. Well, the Taliban gave 462 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:39,640 Speaker 1: you the hard deadline, and Joe seemed to be bullied 463 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: into it. And Blincoln just gives me zero confidence. The 464 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: guy that gets lectured on human rights by the communist 465 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,919 Speaker 1: Chinese and Anchorage Alaska, the same country that gave the 466 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: world COVID, thank you, but no thank you. You know 467 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 1: you've got genocide going on within the country of China. 468 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: The territorial ambitions have never been more clear. And this 469 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: idiot sat there and got lectured on human rights and 470 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: didn't push back in a fierce way. Mike Pompeo would 471 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,720 Speaker 1: have ripped their heads off. I think President She would 472 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: try that crap with Donald Trump. No, he would not. 473 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: I've been privy to a lot of information over time 474 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 1: because I'm actually a member of the press and I 475 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: have sources. We're kind of right on everything in a 476 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: Russia hoax collusion. I know a lot of things about 477 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: a lot of topics and nobody that I can't share 478 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: with people. Eight hundred nine four one Sean, if you 479 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program, why because 480 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: you get you learn things off the record as a 481 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: member of the press, which I am. I'm a talk 482 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 1: show host. Stephen, Thank you, Daniel Colorado, what's up? Daniel Hey, 483 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 1: thank you for taking twenty five year gabut venture and disabled. 484 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Negotiate with terrorists, You're welcome. We don't 485 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: negotiate with terrorists. So when the President says when we 486 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: need him to them, but you need them to cooperate, 487 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: which isn't okay, you're vetting. Okay, those people are in 488 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 1: imminent danger. They're being killed and will be killed. Yet 489 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: you're not saving in the southern border. So the five 490 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,400 Speaker 1: thousand prisoners we just would let out will be coming 491 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:16,119 Speaker 1: to the southern border, and I hate to see that. 492 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,640 Speaker 1: I hate to say that. We know and my team 493 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 1: is not how many Americans okay, you can't keep trying, Well, 494 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: how many have you got out? Eighty seven thousand? If 495 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: someone always figures at eighty thousand, four hundred Americans five percent, 496 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 1: that's your priority. Okay, we have GPS, get your phone, 497 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,920 Speaker 1: get special forces out there and start getting them because 498 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna do it now, You're gonna do it later. 499 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: Twenty people on Tea I don't think they'll do it later. 500 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: I think the window is closing. That's why the British 501 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: did it, That's why the Dutch did it, That's why 502 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: the French did it. Why didn't we do it? Why 503 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: aren't we doing it? Listen? I was briefed on all 504 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,479 Speaker 1: of this before my show today. You know, I actually 505 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 1: do work. I make phone calls. I talk to people 506 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: that know and there are thousands that I wasn't told 507 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: an exact number, but they are knowledging. There are thousands 508 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: of Americans caught behind enemy lines. Today's the twenty fifth Okay, 509 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: now we're down to almost five days left. Never seen 510 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 1: anything so disgusting in my life. Thank you for your service, though, sir, 511 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 1: thank you twenty five years. I'm sorry also sustained injuries. 512 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: We'll continue, all right. Sun's out shades are in. You 513 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: want to get your home ready for summer with custom 514 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: window treatments from our friends at blinds dot com. 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We'll 539 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: talk to Tom Cotton, Mark Meadows, Ari Fleischer, Ali North, 540 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: Lara Logan, Congressman Michael Waltz, and Herschel Walker running in Georgia. 541 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: This isn't going to be a great win for him. 542 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: All happening tonight at nine. We'll see you then say 543 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 1: your DVR back here tomorrow. Thank you for being with us.